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UKI EDO:
EDO LANGUAGE LUNAR MONTHS
By
Chief (Prof.) Alex G. Igbineweka
The Guosa Language Evolutionist and Inventor
A Nigerian and ECOWAS Common Indigenous Future Lingua Franca for
Unity, Identity, Political Stability, Tourism, Arts, Culture and Science
Teliwaya: (510) 225-9172 Ext. 1-4
 
EDO PEOPLE'S MONTHLY EVENTS

Ùkí-agùẹ
January
Self, family and community purification

Ùkí -'fíe
February
Bush clearing (for farming purposes)

Ùkí -egbó
March
Tree felling

Ùkí-ekhúen
April
Preparing the land for planting of crops

Ùkí-egúa
May
Yam planting season

Ùkí-kpèsì
June
Yam-sticking (staking or sticking)

Ùkí-vìemà
July
Vine tending of the yams

Ùkí-òhíe
August
Rain recession (August break)

Ùkí-èhó*
September
New yam gifts (new yams celebration)

Ùkí-emórhò
October
Yam harvest season

Ùkí-aká
November
Yams storing in the barns (food for rainy days)

Ùk'-Ìgùe
December
Igue Festival, thanksgiving etc.

It should be noted that most of the traditional Edo lunar months centered around agriculture and farming events, the main source of livelihood of the Great Benin Kingdom, now Edo State of Nigeria. The Edo people have so many other socio-economic trading specialties such as rubber plantation and rubber-tapping, hunting the wild life for diet proteins, palm-oil production, traditional mud and thatch house building industries, traditional textile industries "Ùkpón-orú", "Ìgbégbé", "Ísónyén" etc. Why the people decided to name their lunar months around yam produce is a subject that we would like us to discuss fully
 
Also, the Edo people of Nigeria started the "Thanksgiving" annual celebrations long before the Europeans and the United States of America ever dreamed of such programs. But like every other things - Africans don't take their skills and talents seriously for indigenous development. They are the only people who buried their ingenuities beneath the dusts.

Please be aware too, that there are differences between "Ùkí-èhó ", "èhó" and "Èhòr" as follows:

1.         Ùkí-èhó:... meaning the month of September, the month of new yams celebration
2.         èhó: ..........meaning "ear"
3.         Èhòr:.........The name of a major town in Uhunmwonde Local Government Area of Edo State of Nigeria
 
By Chief (Prof.) Alex G. Igbineweka.
January 8, 2017
Oakland, California

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